Oregon Historical County Records Guide

Harney County Records Inventory

Clerk and Recorder Official Filings

1984-[ongoing]

Series documents the filing of transactions, authorized by
statute, with the clerk or recorder of the county for the purpose
of making the transaction a matter of public record. Information
includes dates filed, type and description of transactions, filing
numbers, names of parties involved, amounts charged or assessed,
and clerk or recorder's signatures. Series may also include
alphabetical indexes that contain volume and page numbers where
recorded and names of individual filing transactions. Transactions
include records that were previously maintained separately, such
as mortgages; deeds; military service records; federal,
mechanic's, and road improvement liens; mining claims;
satisfactions; judgment assignments; notarial commissions; medical
and ministerial licenses; oaths; and affidavits of publication.
This series is commonly referred to as the Book of Records.

Deeds, mortgages, liens,
military discharges, and mining claims make up the majority of filings in
this record series. Since 1984, these
records have been filmed together and indexed on computer
in the clerk's office.